Yummy Summer Soaps!

Mmmm. Summer is one of the BEST times of the year for yummy soap scents, especially fruity ones. Here are a few of my favorites!

Cherry Limeade! What a yummy summer combination! This soap is from Flourish Bath and Body (find her HERE @ Etsy) and is absolutely divine! This bar has poppy seeds layered through the green part of the bar, so you're never without exfoliation. The pink part of the soap is shea butter, so it's nice and smooth. I've already grabbed three bars of this soap because it leaves the shop at the end of August. Love this one. It never lasts long in my soap dish!


Pick up your own bar on Etsy from Flourish Bath and Body before it's all gone! (or I buy them all, either way)


My rating: ★★★★★

If you like Piña Coladas, then this soap is for you! It smells like it's straight of a cocktail glass, or as my boss says, it's like taking a bath in a cocktail. This soap is from my favorite Etsy seller, Sunbasilgarden. (find her HERE @ Etsy) The soap has a great ribbed design that feels like a massage in the shower and poppy seeds for natural exfoliation.


Find this soap on Etsy from Sunbasilgarden.


My rating: ★★★★★

Yes, I have an obsession with Sunbasilgarden soaps. Can you blame me? They're almost good enough to eat! This soap, Tango with the Mango, is one of my favorites! It's the perfect shower soap, ribbed for a massage-like experience topped with a sugar scrub! It's also a slanted shape, wider at the bottom, narrower at the top, for an easy hold! It also smells like mango. What else could you want in a bar of soap?


Find this soap on Etsy from Sunbasilgarden.


My rating: ★★★★★

Another cocktail soap? Yes, indeed. But this one is a mimosa scented bar from Epically Epic Soap. (find her HERE @ Etsy) This orange-y soap is a great square shape and has orange peel added as an exfoliant. Another plus, the cute little soapy orange slice in the middle of the soap! Smells good, feels good, mmm. 


Grab this soap on Etsy from Epically Epic Soap Co.


My rating: ★★★★★

Five-Star Friday : I Dream of...Creamsicle?

Yum. What's a better treat on a hot summer day than a creamsicle? Well, maybe these two treats. There's one for your hands and one for your lips. Now get over to the freezer and grab a cold creamsicle...well, after reading this.

Mmm. I flip over Sunbasilgarden soaps all the time. They're the majority in my soap inventory, so I use them the most. This one is just perfect. It smells so much like a creamsicle you just want to eat it, or at least we wanted to eat it. (find Sunbasilgarden HERE @ Etsy) The layers of orange and cream are packed with glycerin and essential oils for soft skin, which is important in the summer. This is definitely one of the my favorite summer soaps. I'll be grabbing my spoon for more before this one goes away until next year!

You can grab this soap on Etsy from Sunbasilgarden.

My rating: ★★★★★

I've already mentioned what an addict I am to lip balms in general and to Familiar Lover's shea lip balms specifically. (find her HERE @ Etsy) Her lip balm formulas are just so smooth and creamy that it's perfect she makes one in creamsicle! The scent is just so yummy when you put it all over you lips all day. This is another product perfect for summer, because creamsicle just screams summer. I love balms from Familiar Lover because they go on smooth and have a glossy shine on my lips. Forget goopy lip glosses, this is much better! (smells better, too.)

You can buy this balm on Etsy from Familiar Lover.

My rating: ★★★★★

My Soap Dish : Peppermint Lemonade and Kumquat

I order too many soaps sometimes, so I change them out of my soap dish frequently. The main reason for this is that I was my hands a LOT and that I actually wash them for the germ killing recommendation of 30 seconds. After the soap gets to a certain size, I pop them in a plastic bag and take them on the go so that I don't need to use the yucky soap pumps at restaurants, stores, and work.

The smell of this soap was a lot lighter before I added water. It's Peppermint Lemonade from Flourish Bath and Body. (find her HERE @ Etsy) I'm not really a fan of this bar. The scent of the peppermint, in my opinion, totally overpowers the lemonade. It smells like strong peppermint gum in some respect. The bar itself is a soft rectangle with apricot seeds for exfoliation. Personally, I like the apricot seeds. They're gentle and not too harsh on my hands. The bar is pretty, but I definitely won't be buying another one.

You can buy this soap on Etsy from Flourish Bath and Body. (or if you're like me and don't like peppermint that much, go HERE to browse her other soaps.)

My rating: ★★✩✩✩

Sunbasilgarden is my favorite soap maker. I'll say that right now and put that bias out front and center. I have so many different bars from her it's practically an obsession. (find her HERE @ Etsy) I grabbed this Pink Bunco Dice soap (I don't even know what Bunco is) because it's kumquat scented. Kumquat. It's really sweet, but not overly sweet, and it scents up my bathroom nicely. This one doesn't have any exfoliants in it, but it's nice and smooth. I have another one hiding on my soap shelf, but I'll probably pop a different scent in the dish before this one makes it around again.

You can buy this soap on Etsy from Sunbasilgarden.

My rating: ★★★★✩

My Soap Dish : Strawberry Banana and Berry Lemonade

My soap dish holds two juicy, summery, glycerin soaps - both with exfoliants.

The first soap I'm scrubbing with is a soap from Sunbasilgarden. (find her HERE @ Etsy) It's a Strawberry Banana Milkshake scented soap with poppy seeds as an exfoliant. It really smells straight out of the blender. Try this by your sink in a pretty dish. It's perfect for scrubbing hands with a nice square shape. 

You can buy this soap on Etsy from Sunbasilgarden.

My rating: ★★★★✩

The second soap in my large soap dish is this berry lemonade scented wonder from Flourish Bath and Body (find her HERE @ Etsy) It's a tart, but sweet, berry lemonade combination with blueberry seeds as an exfoliant. The bar is the perfect handwashing shape of a soft rectangle, not too long and not too wide. 

You can buy this soap on Etsy from Flourish Bath and Body.


My rating: ★★★★✩